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My screen is blank when I switch the camera on, although the lens seems to open normally - playback is fine. Battery is charged. This happens in all modes.

I have a canon SD1100 I just purchased and after a few minutes the camera will not shut off, the power button won't work and I have to open the battery cover to turn it off. Somehow this completely drains the battery too every time even if it was just charged. Also the camera turns itself on by itself about 10 minutes after you put the battery in it and once again you can't turn it off. I got another battery and the same thing happens. Otherwise it works fine.

I have a Canon EOS 40D When I switch it on all appears fine. When I take a photo the shutter remains open & all power is lost. I then need to remove & re-install the battery to recover power. I can view existing photos on the memory card but as soon as I switch to take a photo & click the shutter, the above happens again. Before I decide next steps I was hoping someone out there could help.

See if the problem is related to the memory card. Start by ejecting the memory card and after saving to disk via card reader, format the card. If there is a problem writing to the card, it will probably show up during the format process. Or, inser ...
Canon EOS 40D Digital Camera

My Stylus-7010 has just decided not to open up when turned on. The battery is fully charged, and the playback pictures function lites up and works fine. The lens makes a noise but does not extend nor open. Should I return it to the store for a replacement? I have only had it for 41 days. Registration #8855

Base from the description of your problem this is a clear mechanical problem inside your camera and in order for it to be fix the camera needs to be dismantle and doing that will definitely void your warranty for the unit, so I strongly suggest that ...
Digital Cameras

My Pentax optio 330GS wont switch on. After pressing the ON button you get a couple of beeps and then nothing happens. The batteries are fully charged. If you gently tap the camera in your hand, sometimes the camera switches on and the lense comes out and allowing you to take pictures as normal! This camera was a birthday present and holds great sentimental value. Please help with any advice!

Two possibilities: one bad, one not so bad. If you've recently\015\012dropped the camera you've likely damaged the lens tube (housing), and\015\012the camera will require professional repair. Before you panic though,\015\012the problem that you de ...
Pentax Optio 330GS Digital Camera

Batteries After charging batteries I load them into camera and nothing happens. I tried standard batteries and things work fine. I return to charged batteries and everything works fine too. Why do I get a problem using rechargeable batteries once they have been charged? The same thing as before. The charger indicates error, charging and ready for each battery. No problem with the charging process that I can tell. The charger is an Ansmann Digispeed 4 Batteries are 2200NiMH. The batteries I teste

Mmmm.... thats a weird problem :) \015\012Yes definatly try those other rechargable batteries that you where thinking of buying, the batteries could be duds?? \015\012other than that, if it is under warrnty send it back to pentax with the b ...
Pentax K110D Digital Camera

Put a new fully charged battery in - the camera would lasted for a couple of minutes and then would not switch on. The battery works fine in an identical camera. Put in a second battery - that worked for a bit then started flashing battery problem and wouldn't switch on. 5 minutes later - it did switch on - lasted for a short time and then started flashing ERR 99, and then wouldn't switch on again. Battery works fine in an identical camera. 10 minutes later - started working again, but the Sigma

Battery Problem When fully charged the camera will work for a few hours. It can be switched off annd back on again and will run with no little loss of charge after 8 hours or so.
If a fully charged battery is fitted but is not turned on the camera will not even switch on after about 15 hours - the battery is totally run down.
New batteries have been used but no difference is found. This has happened from new. It was returned to Nikon UK's service department with a covering letter trying to

Sorry this isn't a solution, but I wish my 8700 would last even as long as yours does.\015\012\015\0122 hours, period. on or off, taking pictures or not, two hours & it's a stone dead battery.\015\012\015\012Just on the off chance it will help I'm ab ...
Nikon Coolpix 8700 Digital Camera

I have a Vivitar Camera that I bought from a Pawn Shop. The Flash worked fine for the first few months having it. I didn't use it for a while, and once I finally did, I heard 3 pops. After that my flash no longer works. When I switch into Flash mode it blinks and goes back to No Flash mode. Do you think it's the flash tube, the circuit or the battery that charges the flash? I opened the camera and nothing looks blown.

The 8025 is a very cheap camera....I hope you didn't pay more than $15 at the pawn shop. Your camera has a blown flash tube. The camera could have been dropped in water by the previous owner. You could have bought one at Walmart that would have at le ...
Vivitar ViviCam 8025 Digital Camera

My camera battery is fully charged but my Nikon D70s will not turn on... the switch moves fine, but nothing happens. any ideas?

My lumix DMC-fz7 won't turn on. The battery seemed to charge just fine but when I switch it on nothing happens

I have a ES55 Samsung compact camera for over 1 year and it always worked fine. Now, for no apparent reason, when I press the switch button, nothing happens; the "press play button twice" doesn't work either, and when I connect it to the PC, the amber light get flashing but I'm sure the battery is charged. This seems to be a recurrent problem with other users, anyone has a suggestion to share, please?

The lens assembly could be stuck, or the battery could be low or weak. Make sure, first, that the contacts inside the battery are clean (clean them with a qtip and isopropyl alcohol). There's a couple of web sites that explain what things you c ...
Digital Cameras

MJU 300 Hello my partners MJU 300 camera has developed a fault where when the shutter slide is opened it starts as normal the lens extends the lcd starts then allmost imediately the lens retracts. if it does stay out/on as soon as you take a photo it retracts & shuts down. i have tried a different battery same thing happens. so in my wisdom i decided to remove the shutter slider cover in the hope of finding some fluff on a switch but unfortunately it has only worsened the problem now the camera

Sean \015\012\015\012 Sorry about this but Olympus charge \302\243100 flat rate for all repairs- costly i thought. however i opted for buying a replacement from Ebay \302\24330 as good as new. seems a real waste but looks like olympus run an almost d ...
Olympus MJU 300 Digital Camera

No power I can't get my camera to turn on...yes I've charged, changed, etc. the battery...nothing happens. It's only 9 months old and I had just shot a birthday party the day before. Again I have changed the battery, charged the battery, etc. etc. and when I flip the switch on nothing happens....dead as a door nail!

Both your camera and the battery have a warranty, so I would call Canon and they may replace your battery out of goodwill even though it has been more than 30 days, if you provide your proof of purchase, this is always a possibility...to avoid having ...
Canon EOS 400D / Rebel XTi Digital Camera

Dear Sirs, my Sony DSC F828 would switch off partly through a photo shoot and then it is a problem to get it back on again. If I remove the battery it would come on for a few seconds or untill it has booted properly and then switch off again. The battery is fully charged when this happens so it don't seem to have anything to do with the battery being improperly charged. Could you please give an answer on this one!!!
Cliffie Viljoen
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The contacts on the battery terminals inside the camera could be slightly oxidized, however, this sounds like a lens issue. Here is a blog that talks about the various things you can attempt to try to resolve it. If nothing seems to help, don't u ...
Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-F828 Digital Camera

Battery Problem My 18-month-old Canon A70 is giving "change the battery pack" message and turning off constantly, even though I have fully charged three different sets of new rechargeable batteries and rotate them as soon as the message comes on. Sometimes with this message I pull out one charged set and put the same back in, and it works fine for quite awhile, then repeats later. I imagine this is a problem in the camera battery power circuit or something. Never happens when plugged into the co

I figured out the problem. My AA battery recharger was not making good contact, so although it said the batteries were recharged, this was not the case. After fixing this and getting full recharges, the problem went away. ...
Canon PowerShot A70 Digital Camera

I bought a Sanyo E1500TP camera while on holiday in Orlando. Camera worked really well while on Hols however on returning home to UK we used the camera once and then battery seemed ro die, we have charged it several times both from mains and through the USB outlet on the PC but the camera will not switch on. The charge light is flashing when charging as it did when on hols but camera will not switch on either in normal mode or even to review pics.

My camera battery ran out and when i plug it in to charge it with the original charger nothing happens at all, cant switch it on and it doesnt charge, it wont do off the computer either, i tried it with a dc adapter and i can turn the camera on while its plugged in with that but it still wont charge - is it the battery or the charger or both???

Yes replace both ,batterry and the charger,thath way youl be shure and the new battery must be charge for 12 hrs ...\015\012and should works fine after ..\015\012hope that will help you\015\012regards Alan.. ...
Kodak EasyShare M863 Digital Camera

I have Canon EOS 300D digital Rebel. I have had intermittent problem with the camera display screen going blank even though I put a freshly charged battery in. Usually I can take a couple pictures then the camera becomes non-responsive with a blank display screen; if I pull the battery out and re-insert it, the camera will take a few more pictures before the same things happens.
Any suggestions?

Strange, intermittent problems with the EOS Digital Rebels can be caused by a defective shutter release switch. We charge about $85 to replace it. ...
Canon Digital Cameras

Canon Powershot SD450 E18 problem: The camera lense would not open and reported error code E18 on power-up and then would shut down. I followed a procedure on the web for this issue and got the camera lens to open and it was working (able to take pictures for about a minute). When I powered down, the lense did not completely retract. I tried re-powering on but nothing happened. The camera is not getting any power. I figured the battery died so I re-charged it. I put the fully charged batt

Nothing happens when i charge my kodak m763. No lights come on to indicate charging. It had not been used for about a year,but battery was fine prior to this. Do i need a new battery?

Hi,\015\012\015\012As the battery has been in a state of non use over a long period of time it is likely that it has failed. In addition to the fact that the battery cells will have become passive, some LiON batteries have a circuit prote ...
Kodak EASYSHARE M763 Digital Camera

Power problem My camera is dead even though it has a fully charged battery inside. You slide the cover back and nothing happens. We tried a different fully charged battery and still nothing. Any ideas?
Have the Canon Powershot S30 since many years (some 6000 photos taken) but suddenly the camera is absolutely dead. The lens won't come out when sliding the lens door back, no pictures shown at the monitor when switching the viewing button to the right, no USB connection when connectiong to a P

Wierd Antics Hello. My Sony DSC-W5 opens and closes three times when I switch on the power. After this little ceremony it seems to work fine. I get the same open and close action when I switch off the power as well. This has been happening for months now...thankfully the camera still functions but does anyone have an idea how to fix this? or what caused it in the first place? Thanks.

Help The camera was working fine 5 days ago. Yesterday when I tried to switch it on, I assumed that the battery was flat so I charged it but when fully charged the camera still won't switch on. Please help!
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Battery charging just bought camera in america and have taken it home and followed start up and put in battery in camera and on to usb cradle. red light is flashing but camera has not charged in two days. once you remove it from cradle nothing happens. able to get in to the menu when on the cradle but not to open shutters or turn it on.

My 1-yr old camera just developed the same problem. If you call the Technical Support phone number, a Casio representative will take down your information and offer to send you a replacement battery for free. I was told that this is a common proble ...
Casio Exilim EX-S880 Digital Camera

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